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DJREYNOLDS.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING MACHINERY.

. No. 306,283. Patented 001;. 7, 1884.

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TYPE DISTRIBUTING- MACHINERY.

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DEXTER REYNOLDS, OF ALBANY, NEWV YORK.

JPECIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,283, dated October7, 1884:.

Application filed October 1, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DEXTER REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, andresiding in the city and county of Albany, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Type- DistributingMachinery, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the automatic dis tribution of type (providedwith nicks) for subsequent use in a type-setting machine, or otherwise.

The object of my invention is the construction of a machine fordistributing type previously suitably nicked therefor, my machine havinga series of channels or grooves constructed to receive in lines (insteadof single letters at a time) the type intended for distribution, incombination with a series of channels provided at their entrance withfixed pins or wards to keep out those type not correspondingly nickedand to admit those that are. It is an improvement on my previousinvention, for which Letters Patent were granted to me dated June 19,187 7, and numbered 192,281, and reissued under date of FebruaryS,1-881, and numbered 9,560, and differs therefrom in these respects, thatwhile in the former the channels in each series were required to beequidistant and very exact, and one series had to be adjusted and madeto move and coincide with the other with a very exact and intermittentmovement by means of an accurately-cut ratchet with a pawl, in thiseither series of channels can be cut without regard to the others, andany number in either, and at the same or any distance apart, and,dispensing with the ratchet and pawl and the intermittent movement, oneseries is simply continuously moved past the other. With the use of aratchet and pawl there was of necessity more or less concussion at theinception of each movement, and a liability to jar the type over, sothat they sometimes became nipped or blocked the machine. Dispensingwith this mechanism seems, by the steadiness and quietness of thecontinuous movement, to have cured these defects. I attain these objectsby the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and

hereinafter particularly described, which I deem the simplest and best,although I am not and do not intend to be confined thereto, as there areseveral modified constructions which will produce similar though notperhaps as good results, some of which are hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings there are four figures illustrating myinvention, in all of which the same designation of parts byletter-reference is used.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvedtype-distributer. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken atline 1 1 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view taken at line 2 2 inFig. 2; and Fig. at is a view of the entrances'of the receiving-channelsin plate E, taken at dotted line X in Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A is a plate, preferably of cast-iron, of any desireddiameter. One of sixteen inches will admit of the introduction of oversixty lines of small pica, over four and a half inches long each, orexceeding the width of any ordinary column or page. These chan nels maybe out from the circumference toward the center, or to a-point or pointsout of the center, and at equal or any distances apart, the depth towhich the channels in plate A should preferably be out being such that ahigh space will very slightly extend above the upper surface of plate A,.and such channels should be as nice a fit as consistent with the readypassage of the type therethrough.

P is a pin by which plate A is secured to upright shalt B, so as to berevolved thereby. The bottoms of the channels in plate A are groovednearly their entire length, through their centers through the ironbelow, so as to admit of the passage therethrough of the springs 0,attached at one end at M, and inserted at their other ends into thecircular space in pusher D, as shown in Fig. 2.

N is a pin inserted in the top of each pusher D, by which they can bemoved back toward shaft B, to admit of the insertion of a line of typein front.

0 O are screws or pins with heads wider than the grooves in the bottomsof the channels, which screws or pins pass through such "channels it isdesiredto contain.

grooves and into the'bottoms of pushers D,preventing their being shovedup or canted backward or forward,while permitting their ready passagetherethrough.

Instead of screws or pins 0 O, a groove might be cut in one or bothsides of each channel, and a pin or pins inserted in pushers D, playingtherein,would accomplish the same result. In the former case any pusherD may be prevented from passing beyond the circumference of plate A whenthe channels are empty, by the grooves in the bottoms of such channelsbeing cut to only such a distance that the forward screw or pin will bearrested in its forward movement at the desired point, and in the latterby the pin striking an obstruction to its forward passage placed at theproper point in the groove in which it plays. So, also, the pusher D,when pushed back to admit of the insertion of a line of type, may by anysuitable device be heldin such position when desired.

Any desirable form may be given to spring 0 or pusher D, and suchpusher, instead of by a spring, may be moved forward by gravity orotherwise. The pushers D should be slightly beveled on their "frontedges, which first approach the pins or channels in plate E, hereinafterreferred to. K a a are ribs to strengthen and stiffen plate A.

1 Plate E is also preferably made of cast-iron,

and is intended to be stationary, surrounding but not touching plate Aand supported on legs F, e 6 being ribs merely to strengthen and stiffenplate E. This plate can be of any desired diameter, according to thelength of the In this plate may be cut any number of channels to thesame depth as those in plate A, and preferably from about onesixty-fourth to one thirtysecond wider than those in plate A, so as toadmit of the more ready entrance of the type thereto. The channels maybe at any distance apart, equal or otherwise, but preferably, as thereis room for them, at least double the number of those in plate A. Attheir entrances, on the dotted line X, are inserted fixed pins or wardsdifferinginposition for each type. They may be of any desired number andplaced on either side or on the bottom, and such pins should be slightlybeveled on their edges, and the edge of the side of the channel to whichthey are attached should also be slightly rounded.

In each channel in plate E is placed a slug, W, of lead or any othermaterial, against which the type can bank, and which will prevent theirfalling over.

light spring to the side of each slug, which, pressing against the sidesof the channels, imparts to the slug a more steady movement.

G are supports, preferably three in number, cast with or attachable toplate E, having a hub, R, at their point of junction with each other,fitted for and in which is inserted upright shaft B, (tapered orotherwise,) supported on and adjustable by set-screw H; or the shaft maybe tapered and fitted into a circular box, which may be inserted in hubR,.which, resting on set-screw H, may be supported andraised or loweredthereby, as shown in Fig. 2. Shaft B has also at its upper end a pulley,K, in hanger J, the shaft passing through boxes fastened to such hangersabove and below pulley K, and is kept from being raised by set-screw L.By this pulleya continuous rotary movement is given to plate A withinplate E on a center common to both.

The operation of the machine is as follows, viz: The channels in plate Abeing each filled with a line of type, and a continuous motion at asuitable speed being communicated to plate A by shaft B from a belt 011pulley K,

the exits of each channel in plate A will pass successively on eachrevolution in front of and across the entrances to each channel in plateE, and during their coincidence, when the type or types in the end of aline in the channels of plate A is or are nicked to correspond with thepins in the entrance of-the coincident channel in plate E, the spring 0will push such type or types from one channel to the other.

What I deem and claim as new and useful in this my invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

A series of channels each adapted to hold a line of type (variouslynicked) pressed toward the exit of such channels by a spring orotherwise, in combination with another series of channels provided attheir entrances with fixed pins or wards'to separate the type, andmechanism to move one series with a continuous parallel movement pastthe other series, one series being so arranged with reference to theother series that on each passage of the one series past the otherseries the exit of each channel in the one series shall coincide withthe entrance to each channel in the other series, so that during suchcoincidence any type or types whose nicks agree with the pins oppositethereto shall pass from the channel of the one series to the channel ofthe other series.

' DEXTER REYNOLDS.

WVitnesses:

Brennan 1?. DUMARY, CHARLES SELKIRK.

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